Power BI implementation planning: Workspaces

This overview describes a series of articles that help you plan your implementation of Microsoft Fabric workspaces. The articles focus on the Power BI experience inside Fabric.

Note

This article is part of the Power BI implementation planning series of articles. The series focuses on planning to implement a Power BI experience inside Microsoft Fabric. See the series introduction.

As described in each article, the article audience might include:

• Fabric administrators: Administrators who are responsible for overseeing the Fabric implementation in the organization.
• Center of Excellence (CoE), IT, and business intelligence (BI) teams: Teams that are responsible for overseeing the use of data and BI in the organization, and for supporting self-service users throughout the organization.
• Content creators and owners: Self-service users who create, publish, and manage content in workspaces.

Comprehensive workspace planning is an integral part of a successful Fabric workspace implementation. Gaps in workspace planning can reduce user flexibility and lead to user workarounds in organizing and securing content.

A workspace is a container in the Fabric portal where users store and secure content. Workspaces are primarily designed for content creation and collaboration.

Note

The concept of a workspace originated in Power BI. In Fabric, the purpose of a workspace broadens. A Fabric workspace can contain items from more than one Fabric experience (also called a workload). Although the scope of content in a Fabric workspace is broader than in Power BI, you can apply most of the implementation planning in these articles to planning your Fabric workspaces.

Articles

The workspace planning content is organized in the following articles:

• Tenant-level workspace planning: This article describes strategic decisions and actions you take that affect all workspaces in the tenant.

  Strategic decisions cover goals and objectives that you have for your organization's implementation.

• Workspace-level planning: This article describes tactical decisions and actions you take for each workspace.

  Tactical decisions include specific implementation plans that support your organization's long-term implementation strategy.

Next step

Power BI implementation planning: Workspaces at the tenant level